Over the holidays I finally solved my problem. When I was down visiting some friends near my old house I stopped by my former LCS and bought a complete box of 4 pocket and 2 pocket pages - 100 of each. I have gone through my player binders and those cards are now displayed much better. I have started work on my Giants collection as well and hope to have that done in the next couple weeks.
I now feel much more enthusiasm when running across over sized cards and recently picked up two very nice ones.
Turning the pennant over you see a box at the top with the card number and all the legal mumbo jumbo. I do like the induction year into the HOF as an addition however. In addition to Ott and McCovey, Christy Mathewson and Carl Hubbell are in this set. I think I will try to track them down. If I pick up a second McCovey I could have a nice, full 4 pocket page in the Giants binder.
The second pickup is this excellent Buster Posey card from 2011 Topps Lineage. This is modeled after the Topps Giants cards from 1964. I love the image in the the catchers gear and the baseball in the corner with the name/position/team is great. I already had the Tim Lincecum from this set so I now have the Giants team set.
The back is pretty cool. It has a newspaper feel. A nice black and white photo of his swing follow through and some info about Buster's rookie year NL Player of the Week performance.
I am very happy to have added these cards to my collection and even happier I have a proper way to store and display them.
I'm loving that Ott pennant.
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